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Equal Opportunity? The child born into foster care or to a poor drug addict mother is nowhere near equal to the one born into an upper middle class or wealthy family. This isn't even taking into account those born with defects and disabilities...

However, it may be so, depending on your definition of "equal". My definition of equal: "The Same" or "identical". Well, seeing as how not all people are the same - in fact, no person is the same as another person - I'd say right off that all men are not born equal.

Humans can be born with multiple legs, penises, arms, nipples, or they can be born without them. It's rare, but obviously I - being completely "normal" - am not "the same" as them. They are vastly different.

Mental capacity is another thing. You can be born with mental disorders, or without a mental disorder. You can be born with, say, Down's Syndrome. I am not equal to a person born with Down's Syndrome; I am superior. One can be born with microcephaly or even macrocephaly. One can even be born with hydrocephalus!

Aside from genetics, one must take into account many factors - everything from race, gender, geographical location, what social class you are born into, and everything else that society as a whole might deem worthy of discrimination. Should all men be born equal? Absolutely - or at least I think so. But are they? If you are born mentally handicapped, it doesn't make you any worse as a human being - but as a human being, you will face many trials and tribulations that a person born with average intelligence would not normally face. Likewise, if you are born as an African-American in 1940s Georgia - or a Caucasian born in modern-day East St. Louis - you will find that, while born as something that would normally be considered equal, you will find that there are many places where you will not be considered equal

A newborn with Down's Syndrome has the exact same ability of a perfectly healthy newborn. Niether of them has yet developed any advantage over the other. They are both dependent on their parents, and they cannot think critically.